Lauren Sandler on the Art & Ethics of Reporting on Poverty

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“It just feels like the whole system here when it comes to who gets to write what about whom is broken, and we’re not asking the right questions to fix it.”

Lauren Sandler is an award-winning journalist and author based in Brooklyn. Her most recent book is the bestselling This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home, a work narrative nonfiction about a young homeless mother in New York. It was named a Notable book of 2020 by the New York Times. Lauren is the author of two previous books, the bestselling One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One and Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement.